LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 15th May, 1961,the coastguard told the honorary sec- retary that a fishing vessel, with a crew of four, had broken down and was drifting two miles north of Heugh. The men were waving a...

Plymouth, Devon. At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht near Mewstone had fired distress signals. At 7.44, when the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse was launched, a gentle...

Plymouth, Devon - At 10.10 p.m. on ist April, 1967, a yacht was reported to be in difficulties inshore and dangerously close to rocks near the Royal Western yacht club. She appeared to be trying, without success, to pick up a mooring.The...

St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...

'Life' landmark: Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, pictured during the special "This Is Your Life" programme about him. Derek, holder of the «/;.«, two silver and one bronze RNLI bravery awards, as... - View image in PDF

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MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.

At...

• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...